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Inauspicious in a sentence
Inauspicious meaning
Not auspicious; ill-omened.
Synonyms of Inauspicious
Using Inauspicious
- The main meaning on this page is: Not auspicious; ill-omened.
- Useful related words include: unfortunate, ominous, ill, unfavourable.
- In the example corpus, inauspicious often appears in combinations such as: an inauspicious, inauspicious start, very inauspicious.
Context around Inauspicious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inauspicious
- In this selection, "inauspicious" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, considered, citing, proved, start, early and birth stand out and add context to how "inauspicious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a very inauspicious and forgettable and a very inauspicious start when. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inauspicious" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inauspicious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The timing was inauspicious. (4 words)
September full moon will occur on Friday the 13, one of the most inauspicious dates of the year. (18 words)
The “Bridgeton incident” was an inauspicious start for Earnest Will—highlighting the Navy’s failure to plan for mines. (19 words)
However, the Airacobra’s initial entry into action proved inauspicious as nearly a score of fighters of the 350th and 81st Fighter Group went off course while transiting from England to Morocco and made forced landings in Portugal. (38 words)
Laremy Tunsil’s NFL career got off to a very inauspicious start when pictures of the former tackle using some sort of contraption to consume illegal substances leaked during the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft. (37 words)
Eckersley made an inauspicious start to his first outing on the big stage when he knocked on inside his own half to give Ben Currie the opportunity to burrow his way close to the line. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
After an inauspicious start, the 6-foot-10, Roebuck, South Carolina, native finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, drilling 7-of-8 shots at the free throw line.
Laremy Tunsil’s NFL career got off to a very inauspicious start when pictures of the former tackle using some sort of contraption to consume illegal substances leaked during the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
Tying rakhi in Bhadra period is considered inauspicious, so the right time to tie rakhi is before 07.05 am on 31st August.
Unfortunately for the franchise's future, opened to even less than its already-inauspicious early tracking number of $35-40 million.
Eckersley made an inauspicious start to his first outing on the big stage when he knocked on inside his own half to give Ben Currie the opportunity to burrow his way close to the line.
From there, the film flashes back to his inauspicious birth in a rubble-strewn cave as his parents, both Kurdish musicians, flee the Iranian Revolution.
Nickel corner Cooper DeJean had an inauspicious start with an illegal contact penalty in his first action as an NFL player.
The two had an inauspicious meeting when Jones accidentally stepped on her toes when dancing at a nightclub, but he would go on to help her develop her infamous mini-crini skirt.
TUV leader Jim Allister said: “Jeffrey Donaldson’s departure in these very inauspicious and concerning circumstances, after he has done the damage of surrendering his party to the Protocol, has very wide ramifications for unionism.
But the party has been virtually silent now, though former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath welcomed construction of the temple and Digvijaya Singh asked PM to defer the event citing “inauspicious” timing.
However, the Airacobra’s initial entry into action proved inauspicious as nearly a score of fighters of the 350th and 81st Fighter Group went off course while transiting from England to Morocco and made forced landings in Portugal.
In a speech, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has tried to reassure the nation, calling the new coronavirus an "uninvited and inauspicious passenger".
However, considered to be inauspicious in the local political and bureaucratic circles, none of the CMs has stayed in it in the last 12 years.
Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when era names were formalized and designated to a single reign, emperors frequently changed them, often after natural disasters and other inauspicious events.
September full moon will occur on Friday the 13, one of the most inauspicious dates of the year.
The “Bridgeton incident” was an inauspicious start for Earnest Will—highlighting the Navy’s failure to plan for mines.
The timing was inauspicious.
While it’s too early to tell if her political career will tank, Ernst’s odd anecdote about wearing bags for shoes as a child was an inauspicious start.
Balaji had a very inauspicious and forgettable ODI debut against West Indies at Vadodara in 2002 and registered sorry figures of 44 in four overs.
Although fairly inauspicious upon initial release, "Relax" finally reached number one on the UK singles chart on 24 January 1984, ultimately becoming one of the most controversial and most commercially successful records of the decade.
Common combinations with inauspicious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an inauspicious 9×
- inauspicious start 8×
- very inauspicious 3×
- inauspicious and 2×